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Commerce Department Short Course on Economic Equilibrium Analysis with GAMS
(Wednesday, January 26, 2022)

Schedule

9:00-10:30 am Jim Markusen: Adding scale economies and imperfect competition to general equilibrium
10:30-10:45 am Break
10:45-12:00 pm Jim Markusen: Numerical exercises with the MNE model
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 pm Tom Rutherford: Numerical exercises with TASTE
2:30-2:45 pm Break
2:45-4:00 pm Tom Rutherford: Tariff quota liberalization in US cheese markets

Materials

  1. Markusen: Lecture notes (PDF)
  2. Markusen: madison8.gms (zip)
  3. 2 Modeling Exercises (zip)
  4. Rutherford: Implementing the model madison5 as a linear programming assignment problem (PDF)
  5. Rutherford: Quantifying Disruptive Trade Policies (Lecture Notes) (PDF)
  6. Rutherford: Quantifying Disruptive Trade Policies (Paper) (PDF)
  7. Rutherford: GAMS code used in last session (zip)

Recordings

  1. Wednesday morning -- first session
  2. Wednesday morning -- second session
    There is no recording for this session.
  3. Wednesday afternoon -- first session
  4. Wednesday afternoon -- second session